Global Macroeconomic and Geopolitical Trends
Fifth Week of Trading 2022. Investors were grateful to leave January trading jitters in the rearview mirror. January was a bad start to the year for investors, and most are happy to see it behind them. US Markets soared into midweek, only to pull back in Thursday’s session, warning participants to be cautious. The US […]
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses
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What Happens Next Economists describe inflation as “too many dollars chasing too few goods.” When you have too many dollars chasing the same thing, the chase will drive the price up. Things will become more expensive. If you look below, you will notice the stock market chart from the end of World War 2 1945
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We will fight and hedge them every way we can. Our portfolios are built to survive economic Darwinism. Anti-fragile. The Impartial Lens Model Portfolio +45.65% Vs SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) +17.51%: 11 October 2018 – 20 July 2020: We have had 5 double baggers (+100%) in this portfolio. 4 remain open and we
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Two new positions have been added to The Impartial Lens Portfolio. We opened a long position in American Outdoor Brands Corporation (AOBC) on Wednesday 27 May. From Monday 01 June, the company will change its name back to Smith & Wesson Brands. The new ticker symbol is ‘SWBI’ and will be listed on the NASDAQ. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/american-outdoor-brands-prepares-spin-200500475.html
The U.S. has the highest levels of gun ownership per capita rate in the world and due to recent events such as the Pandemic and the latest eruption of civil unrest over the past week, we have identified ‘Social Unrest’ as a new investment theme for our portfolio. According to the FBI background check system,
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‘Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences’ – Robert Louis Stevenson Exit stage denial & enter stage anger. We are exiting the denial stage and entering the stage of anger as detailed in Elizabeth Kuubler Ross’s Paradigm of Loss Model in relation to the Covid 19 Pandemic and ensuing economic crisis.
Market Summary: The long and the short of it. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Wuhan coronavirus a “public health emergency of international concern.” The markets took this news as good-bad news. The stock markets, which tumbled on Thursday due to the rising death toll in the world’s second-biggest economy, steadied slightly on Thursday
Market Summary: The long and the short of it. Stocks got hammered at the opening of Asian markets after a weekend of nervous headlines surrounding the Wuhan coronavirus. All eyes and ears await the meeting between the World Health Organization and the Chinese officials. Meanwhile, the Shanghai Composite is down -2.75%, the Japanese Nikkei down